The Pros and Cons of Exiling Yahya Sinwar
Learning the lessons of Yasir Arafat in Lebanon.
August 29, 2024
What a New Counter-Zionist Manifesto Misses
A Jewish professor’s exilic utopia.
The life of Shaul Magid, now a professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth, captures something of the Jewish experience in the second half of the 20th century: growing up on suburban Long Island, and from there joining the counterculture, which led him successively to the Jewish renewal movement, to a haredi community in Israel, to the radical religious Zionism of the West Bank, and finally back to Jewish renewal and writing justly admired scholarly works on Hasidism. Now he is also one of the leading voices in Jewish studies calling for the termination of Israel and urging Jews to worry less about anti-Semitism. His latest collection of essays describes some of his spiritual peregrinations while setting forth a political position he calls “counter-Zionism.” Daniel B. Schwartz writes in his review:
August 29, 2024
How Islamist and Radical-Left Media Spread Lies about Hamas’s Crimes
The atrocity-denial machine.
What a New Counter-Zionist Manifesto Misses
A Jewish professor’s exilic utopia.
The Jews of Columbia University
The school went out of its way to put a Jewish member on its first board of trustees.
God Knew, in Creating the World, That People Would Need a Sabbath
The once-a-week fundamentalist.